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Men of steel, women of wonder : modern American superheroes in contemporary art

Intro; Contents; Zero Issue -- Issue 00; Foreword / Rod Bigelow; Acknowledgements; Of Waistbands and Journeys: An Introduction; Works in Exhibition; Image Credits; The Hero We Know -- Issue 01; The Spectacular Banality of the Superhero / Bart Beaty; Origin Stories -- Issue 02; Manly Workers and Pin-...

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Main Author: Bentti, Alejo (Author, VerfasserIn)
Corporate Author: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Gastgebende Institution)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press , [2019]
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Online Access:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvdmwz0h
Author Notes:Alejo Benedetti
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography
Notes:FID-Lizenz "FID Kunst, Fotografie, Design" (keine Universitätslizenz)
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Summary:Intro; Contents; Zero Issue -- Issue 00; Foreword / Rod Bigelow; Acknowledgements; Of Waistbands and Journeys: An Introduction; Works in Exhibition; Image Credits; The Hero We Know -- Issue 01; The Spectacular Banality of the Superhero / Bart Beaty; Origin Stories -- Issue 02; Manly Workers and Pin-up Girls: Sources for Comic Book Superheroes in 1930s American Visual Culture / Erika Doss; Glimpsing Humanity -- Issue 03; When They Bleed: Our Vulnerable American Gods / Alejo Benedetti; Defender of Innocents -- Issue 04; Superheroes: Dreaming Utopia in Art / Andrianna Campbell; Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:9781610756662
1610756665